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A Party That’s Outgrown Its Park Strangely enough, the Friends of the High Line benefit did not take place on the High Line, but at the semi-abandoned Pier 57 across the street.

From New York Times • May 15, 2013

Poor rabble, who have yet Outgrown so little the green grasshoppers From whom they boast descent, are they to blame?

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius

If Lethe's murky flood not yet hath passed, Old Sir, through your bald pate, that sideways bends, The scholar recognize, who hither wends, Outgrown your academic rods at last.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

Outgrown ordinances should not be suffered to drag just and necessary laws down into contempt.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May

Outgrown them not because the wages were too high but because their wants were too low; were only wants of the body, wants of the barrenest unculture; the inelastic wants.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington